Dyncorp lures police with six-figure jobs overseas

Firm lures police with six-figure jobs overseas - Inside Bay Area:
By Kristin Bender Oakland Tribune
07/03/2009

"OAKLAND — A company that recruits police officers and former military personnel to be international police trainers and border enforcement advisers in Iraq and Afghanistan was in Oakland last week recruiting for roughly 400 spots in the war-torn countries.

DynCorp International, which is based in Falls Church, Va., provides services to civilian and military government agencies worldwide.

It operates programs in law enforcement training and support, security services, base operations, aviation services and logistics support in the Middle East, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia and other places that have experienced conflict, violence and war.

The recruiting came as Oakland faces an $83 million deficit and could decide in the coming weeks or months whether to layoff police officers. The city has applied for $67 million in federal funding to pay for 140 police officers over a three-year period and expects to hear back on its grant application as soon as July. Depending on how much the city receives from the grant, Oakland may have to cut the ranks of its Police Department..."

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